Trudy Montgomery’s approach to abstract landscape painting is founded on an exploration of color and compositional harmony, drawing inspiration from the natural open spaces of the English countryside and of California, where she has lived since 1999.

Often seen as a cross section of the landscape or sometimes as an aerial view, her work reveals a closeness that is rooted in the earth while at the same time flattened to give the feeing of distance. It is this distortion of perception and the ability to see multiple viewpoints simultaneously which interests Trudy, reflecting an inner journey or travel in the mind’s eye.

She paints with a bold use of color and the energy of gesture using a variety of painterly techniques on the canvas including drips, staining, layering and scraping the surface to build texture and interest. She exposes earlier layers of paint, trapped hand over hand, one across another, to reveal glimpses of what has gone before.